Congrats on the endorsement!!!!! This DAR could put you down in the history books with a pre-finished airworthy certificate. He just may not want to make the trip again and is impressed enough by your work to give you the certificate with must does before flight notes. Let us know what he says.
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Wales, WI USA E-mail me at [email protected] Visit my KR-2S CorvAIRCRAFT web site at http://mywebpage.netscape.com/n886mj/homepage.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <[email protected]> To: "KRnet" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 8:55 PM Subject: Re: KR> To The Airport > Good news, Mark. Looks like you'll beat me in the air. > > I went to the airport myself today, and finally got my tailwheel endorsement > in the Champ. I'd have had it earlier, but we needed to cover wheel > landings, which we took care of today. In the next few weeks I'll graduate > to Rick's Swift, which sounds like it has handling characteristics similar > to what I expect from my plane, and work on wheel landings some more. > > Somehow I accidently got added to the DAR's list of things to sign off on > Wednesday, although I'm nowhere near ready. He's already coming to town to > do an RV-7 and a Baby Lakes, and I guess he thought he'd take care of me > too. But just for kicks, I'm going to knock out as many things as I can > before he gets here, and let him take a look at it since he'll be nearby. > All I lack is stuff like carb heat, canopy latches, flap indication, > installing wings and connecting ailerons and flaps, N numbers, EXPERIMENTAL, > and data plate (these last three are standing and could be installed in > minutes), shoulder belts, and a relative biggie, final weight and balance, > along with stuff like mode-c calibration and compass deviation card. We'll > see how it goes, but I certainly don't expect to get signed off. Maybe > we'll call it the "pre-inspection" inspection... > > Mark Langford, Official Taildragger Pilot! > N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
